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Sexual harassment is one of the most detrimental things that an employee can face. Often, the harassment is blatant and immediate. However, it is important to note that not all forms of sexual harassment are overt. There are various forms that more subtle sexual...
If you have faced discrimination because of your age, you are not alone. Ageism is particularly common in the workplace: According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), six out of ten older workers have experienced age discrimination at some point....
You work two hours of overtime one week, as there's a project that just didn't get done on time. You didn't have anything else planned, so you look forward to earning a bit more money for your time. However, your boss doesn't want to pay you time and a half for that...
A nondisclosure agreement can be a good legal document to have if your company has proprietary information that you’d like to protect. It might protect client lists, trade secrets or special processes that you don’t want your competitors to get a hold of....
You probably signed a non-compete agreement without much afterthought when you were hired. After all, you weren’t thinking of leaving your job any time soon. However, recent developments have found you mulling over how to get out of the agreement you signed earlier....
Most often, sexual harassment occurs when only two people are present – the victim and the alleged harasser. That can sometimes make a case seem like it’s just one party’s word against another -- but there may be more evidence available than you think Here is how you...
As an employee, a large portion of your life will be spent in the workplace. Though it is virtually impossible to have no work-related stress, employees have the right to be free from sexual harassment. There are many forms that sexual harassment can take, and every...
Thanks to the popularity of the Me Too movement, virtually every American realizes the pervasiveness of sexual harassment among women. While female employees may be the targets of illegal sexual harassment at work more than their male counterparts, men can be victims...
If you are a woman, you have probably suffered sexual harassment. A 2018 survey found 81% of women said they had. It can happen to men too, but the survey found it was roughly half as likely, with 43% of men saying they had experienced it. Much of the sexual...
If you sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), you have to honor it. You have a legally binding contract saying that you will not give up information that you know. You may take on a new job -- this is different than a non-compete agreement -- but you have to keep that...
